"Save changes to PDFMaker.dot?"...why does Word 2004 sometimesask?

[Cygnus X-1]

Word 2004 will occasionally ask me if I want to make changes to
PDFMaker.dot. I never know what to do, but sometimes when I re-launch Word,
the toolbar will be gone. I¹ve done a ³Detect and Repair² from Acrobat 7
Professional, and neither Excel or PowerPoint ever exhibit this behavior.
Any clues why?

Office 2004
Acrobat 7 Pro
OS X 10.3.9
PowerBook G4 2 Gb RAM

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Word 2004 will occasionally ask me if I want to make changes to
PDFMaker.dot. I never know what to do, but sometimes when I re-launch Word,
the toolbar will be gone. I¹ve done a ³Detect and Repair² from Acrobat 7
Professional, and neither Excel or PowerPoint ever exhibit this behavior.
Any clues why?

If you've got Acrobat, you don't need the PDFMaker add-in. You can just
use the Adobe PDF print driver to print to PDF.

Don't know why Word thinks PDFMaker.dot is dirty...

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

I would hazard a guess that you have switched printers during the session.
That (among a zillion other things) might queue a write to the template.

We can't really find out what PDFMaker.dot "does" (other than screw up your
computer...) but John's right: most of us get better results without it.
Regrettably, it appears to be the only way to get Adobe to pass Word's
hyperlinks and cross-references into the PDF as clickable links.

Cheers

Word 2004 will occasionally ask me if I want to make changes to PDFMaker.dot.
I never know what to do, but sometimes when I re-launch Word, the toolbar will
be gone. I¹ve done a ³Detect and Repair² from Acrobat 7 Professional, and
neither Excel or PowerPoint ever exhibit this behavior. Any clues why?

Office 2004
Acrobat 7 Pro
OS X 10.3.9
PowerBook G4 2 Gb RAM

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